Warren J. Kemmerling

After graduating from St. Louis University in 1947 and serving a hitch in the Marines, Warren Kemmerling began his career. He debuted in the 1953 Broadway musical "Me and Juliet". After six years in musicals which included Rogers and Hammerstein's "Anchors Aweigh", he decided to try his hand in Hollywood. He spent the next thirty-odd years as a supporting player, mainly in television, making several appearances in, among other shows, Gunsmoke (1955), Bonanza (1959), Ironside (1967), and How the West Was Won (1976). He appeared in King (1978) as President Lyndon B. Johnson. Kemmerling served for 18 years on the Board of Directors of the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG), where he was a leading advocate of benefits for actors. After his death in 2005, he was posthumously paid a tribute at the SAG Awards.